TEHRAN, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said on Thursday he is under pressure to abandon his demand for the cancellation of the country's disputed presidential vote result.

    "The recent pressure on me is to make me abandon my stance over the cancellation of the election," Mousavi said in a statement on the website of his newspaper Kalemeh Sabz.

    He made the remarks in a meeting with some socialists to study Iran's post-election situation.

    "Anyway, the government, with the current situation of affairs, will face the crisis of legitimacy," he added.

    Referring to the management of the moves made in Iran's current situation, he said, "if the moves these days are not to be managed well, they are likely to be directed by some people from outside the country and outside the system."

    Mousavi, who lost to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 presidential election according to official results, has complained of widespread irregularities.

    On June 13, Iran's Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said Ahmadinejad won 62.63 percent of the total ballots, while his main rival Mousavi got 33.75 percent.

    The other two candidates, former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guards Chief Mohsen Rezaei, each got less than 2 percent of the total ballots.

    After the official declaration, all the three defeated candidates filed complaints over irregularities in the election, while Mousavi and Karroubi have demanded an annulment of the election.

    Rezaei withdrew his complaint to the Guardian Council over presidential election results on Wednesday.